Submitted by:
Murdo Fraser,
Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
Date lodged:
Tuesday, 08 October 2024
Motion reference: S6M-14825.2
Current status:Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, 09 October 2024
As an amendment to motion S6M-14825 in the name of Ross Greer (Budget Priorities 2025-26), leave out from "notes" to end and insert "agrees that the fiscal levers currently available to the Scottish Government are more than adequate to deliver the economic growth that is vital to sustain public services; recognises that the current fiscal settlement, provided by the former UK Conservative administration, is the most generous on record, and that the Scottish Government has failed to properly utilise the monies allocated to it, by instead choosing to prioritise wasteful projects, such as the National Care Service; notes that the Scottish Government’s financial incompetence, which was exacerbated by the former Bute House Agreement with the Scottish Green Party, has resulted in Scotland becoming a high-tax, low-growth economy that has lost the confidence of the business sector and has resulted in severe public sector spending cuts to fix the Scottish Government’s financial black hole, and urges the Scottish Government to show some common sense and ignore the economic and financial illiteracy proposed by the Scottish Green Party, which proposes yet more burdensome taxation and anti-growth regulations, and to use the generous fiscal powers that it already has to deliver a Budget that prioritises economic growth and provides for all of Scotland."
Vote
Result27 for, 89 against, 0 abstained, 13 did not voteVote Defeated
Submitted by: Ross Greer, West Scotland, Scottish Green Party, Date lodged: Monday, October 7, 2024
Supported by: Ariane Burgess, Maggie Chapman, Patrick Harvie, Gillian Mackay, Mark Ruskell, Lorna Slater
Current status: Taken in the chamber on Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Result64 for, 52 against, 0 abstained, 13 did not voteVote Passed